Ravenscroft, John Stark D.D., an Episcopal minister in America, afterwards bishop of North Carolina, was born near Blandford, Prince George County, Va.. in 1772. I- e entered William and Mary College in 1789, but with little profit, and, on his return front Scotland soon after, settled in Lunenburg County. In 1810 his mind changed, and he joined the "Republican Methodists," and became a lay elder in their Church. He was subsequently ordained in the Protestant Episcopai Church, became assistant minister at Richmond, and mwas elected bishop the same year. In 1828 he retired to Williamsburgh from ill- health, and, on his return to North Carolina, died March 5, 1830. He published several Sermons and Charges: — also, The Doctrine of the Church Vindicated, etc.: — Revealed Religiion Defended against the No- Comment Principle. Sixty-one Sermons and a Memoir (2 vols. 8vo) were also published after his death. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, v, 617.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More